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This trope is prevalent in (but not exclusive to) old cartoons from the [[The Golden Age of Animation|1940s]] as both [[Warner Bros]] and [[MGM]] had a surfeit of bulldog characters. Generally they were vicious guard dogs or bullies, esp. toward cats and littler dogs.
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== Film - Live Action ==
* Mr. Beefy from ''[[Little Nicky]]''.
* Subverted in the Halloween sequence in the movie ''[[
== Film - Animated ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In the novel ''[[White Fang]]'', the wolf fights a bulldog in a dogfight.
** Cherokee the bulldog subverts this trope because he is [https://web.archive.org/web/20140923024720/http://london.sonoma.edu/Writings/WhiteFang/4chapter4.html described as neither vicious or bullying]: "Cherokee did not seem anxious to fight. He turned his head and blinked at the men who shouted, at the same time wagging his stump of a tail good-naturedly. He was not afraid, but merely lazy."
*** He's more an instance of [[Killer Rabbit]] with a side [[Implacable Man]], calmly wearing White Fang down to the strangling point.
* Averted with T-Bone from ''[[Clifford the Big Red Dog]]''.
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[[Category:Bully Bulldog]]
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